ET: he comes down from heaven, performs a few miracles, dies for our sins and goes back into heaven with only a few faithful watching.
Whats up with that from a jewish diretor?
E.T. is Jesus?
by bboyneko 5 Replies latest jw friends
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FriendlyFellaAL
Funny you should mention that...I think there was actually an article in the Awake sometime back in '82 that made reference to the fact that there were similarities between Jesus and E.T.
I seem to remember that our service overseer used the "special needs" part of the service meeting one week to cover this in detail. Sheesh! [8>]
Brian
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dmouse
You naughty people! Do you not know that ET is a false god!
For it is written, in Awake July 8th 1983, page 27, that:
*** g83 7/8 27 Christ or E.T.? ***
I’m not making this stuff up, honest! Check it out for yourself!
Interestingly, many have noted parallels in the story to that of the life of Jesus Christ. Said Professor Albert E. Millar, Jr.: “I think the thing that struck me most was the idea of the capacity to heal, and then when E.T. died and was resurrected.” We have in E.T., then, an enchanting Messiahlike figure that gives momentary emotional release to our need for a true friend with powers greater than ours. Therein lies the movie’s great appeal.
Despite its seemingly Christian message, however, the movie subtly condones youthful misbehavior. In an early scene we find youths playing “Dungeons and Dragons” in a smoke-filled room with a lighted cigarette on the table. Later on, when E.T. gets drunk sampling beer, and Elliott in telepathic sympathy feels the effects, it is all portrayed as something cute. Further, some of the language used by these children is gross profanity. This, along with the supernatural aspects of the movie, has bothered many Christians.
Whether parents or their children see this movie is, of course, a matter of personal choice. But because of the movie’s great popularity, let us not forget that it becomes an effective vehicle for sugarcoating youthful conduct that is definitely wrong.
E.T. may be a skillfully constructed and highly entertaining movie. But it provides no substitute for our True Friend, Jesus Christ, who saves us from this dying, wicked world. After all, E.T. is make-believe. Christ is reality. -
dedalus
"E.T. is make-believe."
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Dedalus
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Preston
To be fair, E.T. wasn't Spielberg's idea, he merely brough Melissa Mathison's script to the screen. Spielberg, who is Jewish, had previously dealt with Biblical subject matter in Raiders of the Lost and would later tell the Christ story through the African slaves in Amistad. There are references to Jesus in the film but I think it's more fair to think of E.T. as a "christ figure" rather than Jesus himself (although I do see where you're going with this):
E.T. comes to earth, is in exile, performs miracles, is persecuted byt the government, children become close to him (Matthew 18:3), eventually dies, is resurrected, and ascends to heaven.
Even though I think E.T., recycles much from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I think the words of one film critic speak volumes:
I think ET speaks to us on another level, a deeper one in our subconscious and our souls. It deals with everyday emotions and experiences like broken families, loneliness, friendship, and love. It also points to a hunger we all have for a relationship with a being outside our world.
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LDH
Whether parents or their children see this movie is, of course, a matter of personal choice.
Would that sentence read differently if the 'of course' part were left out?
Whether parents or their children see this movie is a matter of personal choice.
Their word games will never cease to amaze me.Lisa